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Unlocking the Past:
Celebrating Historical Archaeology in North America (Web-based version)
What is Unlocking the Past?
Unlocking the Past: Celebrating Historical Archaeology in North America is an archaeology resource aimed at secondary school and adult readers. It covers archaeological research related to several history themes including...
Cultures in Contact -- the contributions of architecture, landscape, food, dining, burial practices, and other factors to our understanding of everyday life in the past.
Challenging and Changing Environments -- understanding the roots of ways of thinking about, and acting upon the landscape.
Building Cities -- Beneath streets and tall buildings are the residues of urban life in large cities like New York, World Heritage cities like Quebec, and industrial cities like Oakland, California.
Making a Living in Rural America -- exploring the rural tradition in North American history through the traces of ancient farms, ranches, potteries, and mills.
Cultures in Conflict -- the archaeology of wars: the Revolutionary War, the U.S. Civil War, the epic Battle of Little Bighorn, and World War II.
In all, more than 30 historical archaeologists tell stories of archaeology sites in rural and urban North America -- on the land and underwater, at forts, shipwrecks, missions, farms, city lots, and sites of industry.
Unlocking the Past is a project of the the Society for Historical Archaeology Public Education and Interpretation Committee. The Project editors are Lu Ann De Cunzo, associate professor of anthropology and early American culture at the University of Delaware, Newark, and John H. Jameson Jr., senior archaeologist with the National Park Service's Southeast Archeological Center in Tallahassee, Florida.
The printed Unlocking the Past book is jointly published by The University of Florida Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology
This web-based version of Unlocking the Past: Celebrating Historical Archaeology in North Americais sponsored by the National Park Service's Southeast Archeological Center and the Society for Historical Archaeology.
